Curtain-fixture.



PATBNTED JUNE 11, 1907.

P. A. HOUGHTALING.

CURTAIN FIXTURE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PAUL A. HOUGHTALING, OF RIVERTON, NEV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE CURTAIN SUPPLY COMPANY, OF NEVARK, NEV JERSEY, A CORPORA- TION OF NEV JERSEY.

CURTAIN-FIXTURE.

No. 856,874. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 11, 1907.

Application led February 23,1905. Serial Na 247,006-

To @ZZ whom it 11i/ay concern: screw (l to the bottom wall of the head D.

Be it known that l, PAUL A. HOUGHTAL- A second screw d attaches the plate to the ING, a citizen of the United States, residing cnd of the sliding rod C and the latter is proat Riverton, New Jersey, have invented cervided with a pinch handle c extendingtain new and useful .improvements in Cuithrough and sliding in a slot in the curtain tain-l `iXtures, of which the following is a stick. The spring plate e will be so shaped specification. that its body portion will be ofl'sct from the 6o My invention relates to a curtain fixture bottom of the head and its extension put iinfor holding spring-actuated shades or curder tension, thus tending to hold the pad e ro tains against the pull of the shade roller in contact with the bottom of the groove spring, and more particularly to that class of with sufficient force to overcome the upward curtain fixtures wherein the curtain is propull of the shade roller spring. The shade 65 vided at its lower end with a hollow tube may be raised or lowered by pressing the commonly calleda shade stick, and the latpinoli handles, thus withdrawing the friction i 5 ter is provided at its ends with heads carrypads from the holding contact, or the shade ingfriction tips which are forced into holding may be pushed up without pressing the contact with the bottom of a groove in the handles. ln order to vary the holding power 7o window frame by outwardly forcing springs. of the pad, the tension of the extension e2 The object of my invention is to provide may be regulated by a set screw :12.

2o an inexpensive yet efficient and practicable The pinch handles may, ofcourse, be omit- 'fiXture of the class above mentioned. ted and the fixture moved up and down with- To this end my improvement consists esout retracting the friction pads. By my in- 75 sentially in the combination with a curtain vention if obviate the necessity of providing stick and its guiding head of a friction tip or spring members within the shade stick itself pad elastically connected with the head and and produce a 'fixture which will be cheap to attached toa sliding rod or other retracting construct and easily adjusted as to its holdmeans carried by the stick. ing power. 8o

ln the drawings-Figure 1 represents the Other modifications may be made within lower end of a shade or curtain carrying a the scope of the invention which comprises 'fixture and shown in relation to the grooves the general combination and organization of of the window frame, a fragmentary portion members recited in the claims. of the latter being shown partly in section; l claim: 85 Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional elevation 1. A curtain fixture comprising in combishowing one forni in which my invention nation a curtain stick, a guiding head carried may be embodied; Fig. $3 is a plan view of a by said stick, a friction pad, a spring member blank for forming the elastic plate for carryoperating to force the pad into holding coning the friction pad. tact with the window frame, and means for 9o In the drawings A represents the curtain varying the tension of the spring member. in the lower margin of which is carried a tu- 2. A curtain fixture comprising in combibular curtain stick B. Within this stick are nation a curtain stick, a head carried therethe longitudinally slidable rods C carrying at by, a friction pad, a spring member operating their outer ends guiding heads and friction to force the ad into holding contact with 95 pads. the window fiiame, a sliding rod connected In the form of construction shown in Figs. with the pad support, and means for varying l, 2 and 3, the heads D are hollow metal the tension of the spring.

boxes. Vitliin the hollow of each of these 3. A curtain fixture comprising a shade heads is mounted an elastic plate or spring stick, a head carried thereby, a rod sliding in loo member E which may be made from a blank said head, a friction pad, a spring :member in the form shown in Fig. 3 and having its operating to force the d ad into holding conside portions c bent or folded along dotted tact with the window frame, the sliding rod lines so as to afford a seat for a friction pad ef. being connected with the pad support, means The plate member E has an extension c2 for retracting said rod, and independent 105 which may be secured at its outer end by a means for varying the tension of the spring.

' and also connected to the rod, and having a 4. A curtain lixture comprising a hollow l curtain stick, a rod sliding therein, a hollow head at the end of the stick, and a spring member adjustably connected to the head Jfriction ad mounted thereon and adapted to project eyond the face of the head and to be retracted within the hollow thereof, substantially as described.

5. In a curtain iixture, a head, a hoIding device having a spring part, and adjustable means for controlling the leXure of the spring, said means being carried by the head.

6. In a curtain fixture, a stick, a holding device operatively associated therewith, said holding device including a spring, and means adjustable independently of the stick to control said spring.

7. In a curtain xture, a stick, a head, a holding device on said head, said holding device including a spring, and means adjustable to control said spring. f

PAUL A. IIOUGHTALING.

I/Vitnesses VILLIAM F. BEAToN,

WILLIAM E. BRADLEY. 

